> The article goes on to imply that encryption was intentionally turned
> off to improve real-time multiple-viewer access to the video.
>
> Mountain out of molehill if you ask me...

That fact that various 'customers' were found to have hours of video on 
their laptops suggests otherwise.

Knowing what a drone can see from how high, what sort of resolution of 
detail is available, viewing angle, zoom range optical/digital, loss of 
definition with zoom, how fast does it zoom, does it pan, how fast it can 
respond to a signal, how it responds to environmental conditions, whether 
rain affects it, or snow or ..., what its dawn/dusk sensitivity is or 
whether it loses colour definition in low light, whether it loses video lock 
or brain lock under various conditions, whether any video alterations or 
commends have discernible signatures in the command string, what sort of 
thing is of interest, what sort of standard patrol patterns it flies, what 
it takes to distract it from station keeping or patrolling, what you can see 
and is lands or takes off - or after and before these events,  does it flare 
whn the camera is pointed sunwards and if so how much and how long, do they 
tak care not to point the camera sunwards?,... and much more, would be of 
immense value to some. Arranging for various dummy setups to be visible in 
the field of view wold allow testing on what works and what doesn't. Setting 
a trap to lure a drone within striking distance would be easier when you can 
see what it can see.

For extra points you MAY just be able to make an optical seeker that uses 
the drones own video signal to direct a seeker to its target. Sure beats 
having to design, build and fly your own.


   R

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